The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024
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A collection of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author of the Silo series Hugh Howey and series editor John Joseph Adams.
“These are dangerous stories. The kind that warp reality and threaten to change the world” warns guest editor Hugh Howey in his introduction. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 promises a treasure trove of audacious characters, daring worldbuilding, and twisted realties. A sibling duo of supernatural hitmen. A traveling spellbreaker and his trusty alligator mount. Superheroes registering for work. Sentient spaceships with an AI-human interface grow up together with their human pilots. From a Korean folk-tale retelling about the goddess of shamans, to a car, resurrected from obsolescence via automancy, for a road trip from California to Maine, these are stories that, for Howey, “challenged my worldview, that made me exercise new mental muscles, and that brought me to tears.”
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 includes A.R. CAPETTA • P. DJÈLÍ CLARK • JAMES S.A. COREY • AMAL EL-MOHTAR • ANDREW SEAN GREER • GRADY HENDRIX • ANN LECKIE • SAM J. MILLER REBECCA ROANHORSE • and others
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Jennifer Lee
Created 1 day ago
“Standout stories for me were :
- How it Unfolds
- Zeta-Epsilon
- Form 8774-D
- Emotional Resonance
- Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont
And the ones I could have done without :
- The Four Last Things
- Resurrection Highway
- Window Boy”nat writes a book
Created 29 days ago
“Rating a collection that contains stories written by twenty writers across several genres is difficult. There are stories in this collection that I loved and others that I only enjoyed, or at best, appreciated. One story I skipped after the first few pages (Christopher Rowe’s “The Four Last Things”), because I found it too high-concept to be interesting. I just couldn’t bring myself to care about its rules, and story rules MATTER in science fiction and fantasy, possibly more than they do in literary fiction.
In my opinion, these stories were the best of the best:
>> James S. A. Corey, How It Unfolds
I’ve never seen Interstellar or Severance, but I think that fans of both would love this. Bonus points for scenes set in Chicago.
>> Isabel J. Kim, Zeta-Epsilon
Ever since I read the Imperial Radch series (AKA last week), I’ve loved sentient ships. Ending is bit abrupt, but I was impressed with how Kim balanced the relationship- and world-building.
>> Hana Lee, Bari and the Resurrection Flower
Really enjoyed this Korean-inspired fantasy and take on shamanism. Letting a god live inside your body is such a cool concept, and I loved the underworld imagery.
>> Alex Irvine, Form 8774-D
I hate superheroes and the DMV, but this was a lighthearted and funny take that reminded me of the Kelly Link story in Get in Trouble.
>> A. R. Capetta, Resurrection Highway
Automancy is cool.
>> Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Bruised-Eye Dusk
Included for the voodoo and bayou-inspired setting. I love to read stories that take inspiration from Cajun culture, and Duckworth’s sweet and sour conja and gay witches were a treat. I also have to mention Tugboat the alligator. 🐊
>> P. A. Cornell, Once Upon a Time at the Oakmont
I think that a man wrote this story (who wants to be pregnant and alone in NYC?? you’d go broke) but an apartment building that exists across timelines has been a banger concept since Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.”Kristi
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Wes Kulvete
Created about 1 month agoPfffftokiedoke
Created about 2 months ago“I think I skimmed only two of these stories, which is great! Standouts: zeta-epsilon, the long game, John Hollowback and the witch, once upon a time at the oakmont, if someone you love has become a vurdalak. I like how reading an anthology like this helps you find new authors to check out. Great first read of the year!”About Hugh Howey
Hugh Howey is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Silo Series: Wool, Shift, and Dust; Beacon 23; Sand; Half Way Home; and Machine Learning. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Adapted from his bestselling sci-fi trilogy, Silo is now streaming on Apple TV+ and Beacon 23 is streaming on MGM+. Howey lives in New York with his wife, Shay.
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John Joseph Adams
John Joseph Adams is the series editor of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and the editor of the Hugo Award–winning Lightspeed, and of more than forty anthologies, including Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms, The Far Reaches, and Out There Screaming (coedited with Jordan Peele).
Other books by John Joseph Adams
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